Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (20 April 1717 – 12 January 1786) was an English aristocrat.

Early life

Thomas Barrett was born on 20 April 1717. He was the son of Richard Barrett and Anne Lennard, later 16th Baroness Dacre. After his father's death in 1716, his mother married

Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham ( – 16 May 1723) was an English aristocrat. Early life Roper was born . He was the son of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham and Hon. Elizabeth Browne. Both of his elder brothers, John and Christopher, succeeded ...

, in . After Lord Teynham's death from a self-inflicted gunshot in 1723, she married Irish MP, the Hon. Robert Moore (younger son of the 3rd Earl of Drogheda), in 1725. His paternal grandparents were Dacre Barrett and the former Lady Jane Chichester (eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Donegall). His maternal grandparents were

Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex, 15th Baron Dacre, (13 May 1654 – 30 October 1715) was an English peer. He became Earl of Sussex in 1674 when he married Lady Anne Fitzroy, illegitimate daughter of Charles II and Lady Barbara Palmer. The Ba ...

and Lady Anne Fitzroy (the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II and

Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine ( ; – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many Royal mistress, mistresses of King Charles II of Engla ...

). He was educated at

Harrow School Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner an ...

Career

Barrett-Lennard succeeded as the 17th

Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons, writ. History The first creation came in 1321, when Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre, Ralph Dacre was Hereditary peer# ...

upon the death of his mother on 26 June 1755. His mother had become ''

suo jure ''Suo jure'' is a Latin phrase, used in English to mean 'in his own right' or 'in her own right'. In most nobility-related contexts, it means 'in her own right', since in those situations the phrase is normally used of women; in practice, especi ...

'' Baroness Dacre in 1741 after the death of her elder sister, Lady Barbara Skelton ( Lennard), when the abeyance of her father's barony was terminated in her favor. Their father's

earldom Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The titl ...

, however, had become extinct upon his death in 1715. After their daughter died in 1749, Thomas and Anna went on the " Grand Tour as a distraction during their recovery. After visiting Naples, Florence, Venice and other Italian cities, the couple arrived in Rome around 1750, where they met painter

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous Allegory, allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign vis ...

." In 1745, his wife had her portrait painted the prominent English portrait-painter

Isaac Whood Isaac Whood (1689 – 24 February 1752) was an English painter, who was known for being a great imitator of the painting styles of Godfrey Kneller. Biography Born 1689, Whood practised for many years as a portrait-painter in Lincoln's Inn Fiel ...

Personal life

On 15 May 1739, Thomas married Anna Maria Pratt in London. Anna was the daughter of Elizabeth Wilson and

Sir John Pratt Sir John Pratt (1657–1725) was an English judge and politician. He was Lord Chief Justice of England from 15 May 1718 until 2 March 1725. He was appointed as an interim Chancellor of the Exchequer on 2 February 1721 until 3 April 1721. Lif ...

, an MP for

Midhurst Midhurst () is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester District in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother (Western), River Rother, inland from the English Channel and north of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first reco ...

who served as

Lord Chief Justice of England The Lord or Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the courts of England and Wales. Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the English an ...

between 1712 and 1725. Her elder brother was

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (baptism, baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig (British political faction), Whig politician who was first to hold the titl ...

. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lie ...

Burke's Peerage Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genea ...

(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, pp. 1180-1182 and volume 2, page 2909. * Hon. Anne Barbara Barrett-Lennard (1740–1749), who "died of a sudden fever when she was only nine years old." With Elizabeth FitzThomas, Lord Dacre had two illegitimate children, who were brought up by Lord and Lady Dacre as if they were their own. Of the two children, the son, Thomas Barrett-Lennard (1762–1857), became an MP for Essex South and was created a

baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

of Belhus in 1801. Lord Dacre died on 12 January 1786 in London without legitimate male issue. The barony passed to his nephew, Trevor Charles Roper (1745–1794), the son of his younger half-brother. His widow died on 11 August 1806.

References

External links

Thomas Barrett-Lennard (1717–1786), Later 17th Lord Dacre, with his Wife, Anna Maria Pratt (d.1806), and their Daughter, Barbara Anne
at

ArtUK Artuk can refer to: * Artuk Bey ** Artuk Bey (fictional character) Zaheer-ul-Daulah Artuk Beg, known as Artuk Bey, was a Turkish people, Turkish commander of the Seljuk Empire in the 11th century, chief of the Oghuz Turks, Oghuz tribe of Döğe ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dacre, Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron 1717 births 1786 deaths 17 People educated at Harrow School